From: Leizhen Zhang <lzsx618@gmail.com>
To: nathan@kernel.org, nsc@kernel.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/8] kbuild: fix memory safety and UB bugs in host tools found by fuzzing
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 11:40:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261008164035.3668885-1-lzsx618@gmail.com> (raw)
This series fixes bugs in kbuild host programs found by building them
with AddressSanitizer and UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer and fuzzing their
inputs. Most patches include a reproducer.
Patch 1 fixes a bug that also triggers without sanitizers: a declaration
such as "int a, f(int);" makes genksyms loop forever while allocating
memory (since v6.14; earlier versions silently recorded wrong types for
such declarations).
Patches 2-8 fix out-of-bounds reads (fixdep, modpost) and undefined
behaviour reported by UBSan (kallsyms, modpost, sorttable,
tools/include byteshift helpers), several of which trigger on every
normal x86_64 build when the host tools are built with UBSan.
The series is based on next-20261002. With it applied, a defconfig +
MODULES + MODVERSIONS x86_64 build succeeds, and for genksyms, the
symtypes/CRCs of 149 preprocessed kernel sources are unchanged.
Changes in v2:
- Use my real name in the From and Signed-off-by lines. No code
changes.
- Drop "kconfig: fix NULL pointer dereference for defaults taken from
choice members"; Julian Braha will fix that issue differently.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20261005104050.1786222-1-lzsx618@gmail.com
Leizhen Zhang (8):
genksyms: fix infinite loop on declarations with parameter lists
fixdep: fix out-of-bounds read on a comment ending with a backslash
kallsyms: do not call qsort() with a NULL table
modpost: fix stack out-of-bounds read for unterminated PNP ids
modpost: fix handling of short reads in read_text_file()
modpost: fix pointer arithmetic on NULL in parse_source_files()
sorttable: avoid pointer arithmetic overflow when locating sort_needed
tools/include: fix signed shift overflow in 32-bit unaligned accessors
scripts/basic/fixdep.c | 2 +-
scripts/genksyms/parse.y | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
scripts/kallsyms.c | 6 ++++--
scripts/mod/file2alias.c | 10 ++++++----
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 6 +++++-
scripts/mod/sumversion.c | 3 ++-
scripts/sorttable.c | 2 +-
tools/include/tools/be_byteshift.h | 2 +-
tools/include/tools/le_byteshift.h | 2 +-
9 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
--
2.34.1
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2026-10-08 16:40 Leizhen Zhang [this message]
2026-10-08 16:40 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] genksyms: fix infinite loop on declarations with parameter lists Leizhen Zhang
2026-10-08 16:40 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] fixdep: fix out-of-bounds read on a comment ending with a backslash Leizhen Zhang
2026-10-08 16:40 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] kallsyms: do not call qsort() with a NULL table Leizhen Zhang
2026-10-08 16:40 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] modpost: fix stack out-of-bounds read for unterminated PNP ids Leizhen Zhang
2026-10-08 16:40 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] modpost: fix handling of short reads in read_text_file() Leizhen Zhang
2026-10-08 16:40 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] modpost: fix pointer arithmetic on NULL in parse_source_files() Leizhen Zhang
2026-10-08 16:40 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] sorttable: avoid pointer arithmetic overflow when locating sort_needed Leizhen Zhang
2026-10-08 16:40 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] tools/include: fix signed shift overflow in 32-bit unaligned accessors Leizhen Zhang
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